Happy Friday! And welcome to the end of what felt like a very long week despite the Monday holiday. Let’s dive in. Gatekeeping Based on the EU designating gatekeeper products, I wanted to ask: What changes would you predict the EU implements for each product? This is a rather broad topic, and I have some…

Next week, Google will face off against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a milestone antitrust trial with strong echoes of the past. The DOJ is involved in an antitrust trial against a technology juggernaut? Now what does that remind us of? United States v. Microsoft is well known with this audience, of course,…

Happy Friday! I'm back home, finally, and somewhat rested, and so here's another mammoth installment of Ask Paul to kick off the weekend a bit early. Windows alternatives andrew b. asks: You've mentioned before that Surface was a bit of a slap in the face to PC builders since it was Microsoft competing against them.…

Well, I wasn’t expecting another mammoth installment of Ask Paul, but here it is, with another terrific set of reader questions and a lot to read. Invest in yourselves jrzoomer asks: Paul, with all your industry knowledge, do you invest in individual companies like MSFT, NVIDIA, GOOG etc? Do you have restrictions on owning individual…

I'm excited to announce that I am now the sole owner of Thurrott.com and am partnering with JR Rafael on a new newsletter.

Happy Friday, and welcome to what has to be the longest Ask Paul I have ever written. This one is epic, and full of great questions. I hope I rise to the occasion at least some of the time. Twitter vs. the world ggolcher asks: Safe travels! Thanks! We arrived safely, with little drama. (A…

In January 2008, my wife Stephanie and I visited Paris and stayed with friends in the Fontenay-sous-Bois suburb. They had recently purchased a Toyota Prius, and I recall stepping outside their apartment to walk down the street to the RER train station so we could head into the city. Then I stopped and regarded their…

Happy Friday! Here's an epic set of reader questions to kick off the weekend and the coming start of summer a bit early. Windows 11 version 23H2 testing madthinus asks: I have been thinking about Windows 23H2. When will we test it? Where is it being build? What would be in it. Initially you speculated…

Happy Friday! We're coming up on a long Memorial Day weekend here in the U.S., so let's kick it off early with some great reader questions. christianwilson asks: Energy consumption The push to integrate AI into everything got me thinking about energy consumption. We are living in a time where we are told energy efficiency…

Happy Friday! Here's another great set of reader questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Feeling Brave DKRowe asks: Have started the switch to Brave and it has gone well so far. Just recently though, searches in Brave for local or map-based queries seem to be producing poorer results. Have you noticed this?…

Happy Friday! Thanks to some great reader questions, here's an epic installment of Ask Paul to get the weekend started a bit early. Too big to fail johnlavey asks: What if INTEL rolls over and plays dead....or actually fails....who will do all the "stuff" they do? To what extent will the US, to name just…

Happy Friday! We're finally settling down after the move and are looking forward to a normal weekend. Which we will kick off early with some great reader questions... From Windows to Linux Eric_Rasmussen asks: With Windows losing focus these days, I've been thinking about how Microsoft could get away from the OS game. They've got…

Happy Friday! I'm a bit later than usual because we had our house closing today, but let's finally kick off the weekend with another great set of reader questions. Which iPad jt5 asks: iPad Air Verus iPad Pro I recently had my iPad Air stolen in San Fransisco - and took as an opportunity to…

Happy Friday! We have a busy weekend coming up with our house going on the market, but first, here’s a great set of reader questions to keep my mind off that. Yin vs. yang will asks: Yin vs Yang.  It seems over the past couple of years Microsoft is doing both good and bad, but…

Happy Friday the 13th! Here’s another monster installment of Ask Paul with some great questions to kick off the weekend a bit early. Microsoft’s datacenter moves wright_is asks: Microsoft has bought DPU builder Fungible and HFC manufacturer Lumenisity in the last couple of weeks. Are they trying to restrict other cloud providers possibilities for expanding…

Hola from Mexico City and Happy Friday! Here’s another great set of reader questions to get the weekend started a little early. Mary Jo OldITPro2000 asks: I was sad to see that this was the last week that Mary Jo will be a regular on Windows Weekly. I've been reading both you and Mary Jo…